FARM AND STATION.
__ * ("Weekly Press and Referee.") PICKLING SEED WHEAT WITH FORMALIN. The sowing season for grain having commenced, some information regarding the use of formalin for pickling wed -wheat to prevent smut will be of interest. In Australia attention was given during the past season to experiments with recognised wheat pickles. Tho most important of these were tho experiments with Milestone and formalin, not only as to their efficacy it; the prevention of smut, but as regards their relative effect on the.germination of the grain, which, of course, Jargely determines-' the relative yields of wheat. It has been shown by experiments carried out at Longerenong (Vie), where the seed was pickled for the purpose of demonstration in the presence of some 200 or 300 farmers, that tho formalin treatment is not only as'effective as fJluestone in the preven-
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13738, 20 May 1910, Page 5
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